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GABORONE – The Botswana Police Service has denied a report carried in The Zimbabwean of November 30, 2006) headlined “6 000 Zimbabweans beaten in Botswana”.
Supt Witness K. Bosija, the service’s deputy public relations officer, dismissed the article as an attempt “to tarnish the cordial relationship that exists between Botswana and Zimbabwe”.
He insisted that the police service placed a high value on human rights “as articulated in the United Nations Charter”, and denied that the Special Support Group (SSG) of the Botswana Police Service dealt with cases of violence an... Read more
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The Plain Dealer - cleveland.c
12 March 2009
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Wife of Lorain ex-policeman ha
Lorain -- The wife of a former Lorain police patrolman convicted of stalking another woman took out a billboard ad urging people to report abuses by police.
Marsha Sanchez said she has heard numerous stories of officers harassing people and using excessive force. Reporting the abuses to the Police Department is useless, she said. The ad, at Leavitt Road and East 21st Street, directs people to report incidents to the U.S. Department of Justice and lists the telephone number.
Sanchez's husband, Jesus, was convicted in December of menacing by stalking. His victim was a woman he met while he was on duty. He is scheduled to be sentenced on March 30.
"Throughout my husband's investigation we kept hearing from people who said they were being harassed by the cops," she said Wednesday. "They would get pulled over for nothing, thrown up on the car and abused. And who do you report it to, the cops? They do nothing."
She said people don't know where to turn for help, so she had the billboard ad put up last week. It will remain for at least a month. The Sanchezes declined to say how much the ad costs.
The president of the police union said the whole situation smacks of irony.
"What's ironic is that we do have a good system for investigating our police officers accused of misconduct," said Lorain Fraternal Order of Police President Buddy Sivert. "In the past two years we've investigated three police officers which resulted in the filing of criminal charges, one of them was her husband. She complains that the police don't investigate their own -- her husband is living proof that we do."
Police Chief Cel Rivera said he has no problem with the sign. Everyone has freedom of speech, he said.
Laura Sweeney, spokeswoman for the Department of Justice, declined to say how many calls the billboard has generated.
She confirmed that there is an ongoing investigation into the patterns and practices of the Lorain Police Department. The Justice Department always looks for input from people during such investigations, she added.
Jesus Sanchez, a 28-year-veteran police officer, was convicted of harassing Sarah Long. She said Sanchez groped and forcibly kissed her repeatedly in 2001 and 2002, made daily threatening calls to her and pulled her car over 15 to 20 times for no reason.
Sanchez did not want to discuss her husband's case, stating that he had nothing to do with the billboard. She said he is retired.
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